... ACCOUNTS received at Lloyd's by the American mail report the wreck of the English ship Lochmaben Castle, Captain Turner, with nearly 600 souls on board, on a formidable reef known as the Bird Rocks, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. She was a first-class ship of 1,600 tons, and left Liverpool in the latter end of May for Quebec, with 557 passengers, men, women, and children, and a cargo of rice, &c ...

... Wednesday, 1,-Soiree in Piercefield park. Party on Usk Railway Bridge Thursday, 2,-Monmouth Assizes, business to commence at nine. Excursion train from Newport to London returning on the 9th. ...

... SPEAKING of the news furnished by Russian deserters, who very frequently come forward and voluntarily surrender themselves up to the British sentinels, an officer in the 34th Regiment ob- serves :— We had a strange affair with a deserter the other day. One of our outlaying pickets came into camp and informed me that he had discovered either a deserter or a spy in one of our store tents, which ...

... WOLVESNEWTON. Last week as Mr. Thomas Ellison of Nant-y-gelly farm, Wolvesnewton, was assisting to secure a load of hay, the rope with which he was tying it slipped, and he fell backwards from the top of the load to the ground. He was severely injured and had one of his fingers broken by the fall. Under the care of Mr. Shepard, surgeon, he is going on favorably. ANOTHER SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-On ...

... Latest Intelligence. NEW MINISTRY IN HANOVER. Hanover, July 25, The whole Cabinet excepting the War Minister have resigned. A new Ministry has been sworn in. The King will preside himself. THE EAST The Russian general has suddenly abandoned the siege of Kars, although he was in the vicinity with a force of 30,000 men. The town of the Dardanelles is in a state of siege, by the revolt of the ...

... THIS ancient city, which appears likely to become the scene of important events in connexion with the present war in the East, is situated on the Arpa chain of mountains in Asiatic Turkey, about 168 miles to the north-east of Erzeroom. Kars was for- merly the capital of the pashalic of the same name. It is re- markably fertile. A part of it is walled in, and there is a citadel, which, however, ...

... TOWN HALL, JULY 25th, 1855. Before the Rev. G. W. Gabb, and the Rev. J. Farquhar. Sarah Morgan v. John Perkins, charged with non-pay- ment of bastardy order. Ordered to pay 8s. arrears, and 9s. 6d. costs. Martha Hughes, William Morgan, charged with being the father of her child. Defendant admitted being the fa- ther, and was ordered to pay 2s. per week from the date of her affiliation. USK ...

... CITY OF CARLISLE. THE proceedings of the Royal Agricultural Society in the North of England were commenced at Carlisle on Thursday the 19th, by the partial opening of the show ground to the public. The admission, however, was confined to the trial-yard, where ex- periments were made with various steam engines and other machinery of large dimensions, to afford the judges the oppor- tunity of ...

... USK. On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings last, two Lectures were delivered by Mr. Mackintosh, at the Writing school, under the patronage of the Usk Mechanics' Institute. G. R. G. Relph, Esq. gua- ranteed a certain sum to the lecturer, and the num- ber that attended each night, fully answered the expectations of the promoters. On Tuesday even- ing about 50 were present. The subject of the lec- ...

... NAVAL AND MILITARY. The General Screw Steam Company's transport Hydaspes, No. 87, Captain Baker, has arrived at Spithead from the East with passengers and invalids:—On nearing Cowes, her Majesty and Prince Albert, the King of the Belgians, and both royal families, went alongside her in the Fairy, and the Queen was pleased to inquire minutely of Captain Baker into the state of the gallant ...

... THE sortie illustrated in the subjoined engraving, is thus vividly described by an officer Between eleven and twelve o'clock, on the night of June 16th, a column of Russian infantry came suddenly upon the men in our advanced trenches, and rushed in upon them on the right with the bayonet ere we were quite pre- pared to receive them. When they were first discerned they were close at hand, and, ...

... MARK LANE, JULY 23.-The supply of English wheat was moderate this morning, and the arrival of foreign wheat and flour, during the past week, liberal. Under the influ- ence of fine weather, millers would not purchase unless at a reduction, which factors were not disposed to submit to, and consequently the stands were not cleared at a late hour. The improvement which took place on Friday may be ...